Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ada661f8c0be9ed0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 03:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 86782772fcc5fa3a2b74160fc58ba875 SHA-1: 678eb8e7967a12d093cf1ae501816ab01dd946ee SHA-256: ada661f8c0be9ed0021224a4647020bd6d967d87ebd4fc5d4d76aeb6e85d6ab5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake browser/software-install lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9886

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/23675820554.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb1d675cb1ecd4909fd7d0a70d0c5ca/73020938271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiemtoanhaiphong.vn/upload/files/25662764679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0628c3adf0bd9ac81d7cb4631abccd07/neboxitikumawozozejawurik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtbl23f7pp4mlgq03qve6j9f56/672575350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///fekarolemaserilekemamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6af5122ff8---muzigagafedar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpv1v6g3ulr7fqca5i239afpb4/wunugerubikilulekitevinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608325617a845---fiwewadenetixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/dilovijuzised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcf9b4f1790---poxikibuwupamubofoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf4adr2q2p9dn0hl21gdvs78q1/mebiwuzapagefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dofac21s57ou2mquc5a88mes9r/vugaxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettyloupaints.com/userfiles/files/76132338071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedikal-yub.com/uploads/file/29749976114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c95049d34aafd697e7f61c594c5fe086/35993134906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ce8fd70d779421d08d41821e6d974da/riwisiderasivagabataveta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywayrtk.info/userfiles/file/ledixunowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/wavazoxukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/62467759188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0baa97ae---3289064242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62dc321429dd93a336ce2a73fc6fbc5e/siramifezamisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/fokuzodudewejujuribot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=letmewatchthis+tv+seriesPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D00 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_01_sfnt_off0001227b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1227B 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 30e7ebde5c56ddef78803a12d8235f7733245176370e03973cab391c7ac106e8
font_02_sfnt_off00014ebf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EBF 10336 bytes
SHA-256: d943869d3f4d445ebcf78e23005ac31782dc2d9c8f7de769b561e7793f81f71a
font_03_sfnt_off00016622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16622 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1